They tend to charge their intended targets directly and will use their powerful claws and poisoned tails for quick and relentless attacks. Also, the addition of Damage Threshold makes them harder to kill for an unprepared Courier. Unlike Capital Wasteland or Commonwealth radscorpions, Mojave radscorpions are not seen physically burrowing or leaving temporarily, but nonetheless do burrow as evidenced by the scorpion burrow.Īs radscorpions almost always move in groups of two to five individuals, they can be very dangerous to low-level players. The area around Nipton Road reststop and Mesquite Mountains camp site is also inhabited by a large number of radscorpions. Common places to find radscorpions are scorpion gulch, the scorpion burrow, the scorpion valley near Goodsprings Cemetery and the Yangtze Memorial. They have a thick carapace covering their entire body with no definitive weak spot. Radscorpions are very large, about the size of a bighorner calf. Apart from their size, they appear visually identical to normal scorpions, with mottled, dark blueish-gray carapaces. Samples of their venom can be used to make antivenom. Though considered nocturnal and sensitive to light, radscorpions can be found active during the daytime in the areas they inhabit.
Ĭontrary to many expectations, their venom grew more potent when they mutated rather than becoming diluted. Radscorpions are mutated, via radiation and exposure to the Forced Evolutionary Virus, from the North American Emperor scorpion, which were prolific in many pet stores at the time of the Great War.